DOJ Asked to Explain Whether Trump Declassification Tweet Means Full Mueller Report Will Be Released

DOJ Asked to Explain Whether Trump Declassification Tweet Means Full Mueller Report Will Be Released
Former special counsel Robert Mueller on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 24, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
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A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department (DOJ) to address whether an even less redacted version of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election will be released, following President Donald Trump’s recent tweets saying he had authorized the declassification of “any and all documents” relating to the investigation.

Trump wrote on Twitter on Oct. 6 that he had “fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!”